Re "As for "increased" creativity, however, most serious rock critics consider
their two previous albums ("Rubber Soul" and "Revolver") to be better than
"Sgt. Pepper.":
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
Bhairitu wrote:
>
> Uh, how about they were just creative people to begin with? Many
> artists and musicians are such. It's called "talent."
>
> On 10/31/2013 09:20 AM, cardemaister@... wrote:
> >
> > So, it seems like LSD might have been the main culprit for their
> > increased creativity??
I'm gonna go with Bhairitu's answer above; they were
just creative to start with.
As for "increased" creativity, however, most serious rock
critics consider their two previous albums ("Rubber Soul"
and "Revolver") to be better than "Sgt. Pepper." I know
I certainly do.
Revolver was also heavily indebted to the Fab Four's LSD initiation.
"Tomorrow Never Knows" was a full-on attempt to recreate the immersive
experience of LSD with lyrics borrowed from Timothy Leary's Tibetan Book of the
Dead-inspired writings.
"'Got to Get You into My Life' was about pot, claims McCartney. I (as did John
Lennon) consider it more likely to be about Paul's first acid trip. Consider
the lyric: "I took a ride, I didn't know what I would find there / Another road
where maybe I could see some other kind of mind there."
"She Said She Said" is a song written by John Lennon who described it as "an
'acidy' song" with lyrics inspired by actor Peter Fonda's comments during an
LSD trip in 1965 with members of the Beatles and the Byrds.
